Tuesday, November 19, 2013

YET ANOTHER X-FLARE: Solar activity is high as sunspot AR1890 continues to produce X-class solar flares. The latest, which registered X1 on the Richter Scale of Flares, occured on Nov. 10th at 05:15 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a bright flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the blast site:

The flare also produced a strong burst of ~300 MHz radio waves, recorded at the Mauritius Radio Telescope on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean: data.

This is the third X-flare from AR1890 since Nov. 5th, and all three have something in common: brevity. AR1890 tends to produce impulsive flares, peaking sharply in a matter of minutes or less. Brief flares usually do not produce coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but this one was an exception. A movie of the flare shows a plume of material lifting off the sun shortly after the UV flash. Update: A faint CME associated with that plume will probably sail south of our planet without hitting on Nov. 12th or 13th. Solar flare alerts:text, voice.

COMET ISON SPROUTS A DOUBLE TAIL:Amateur astronomers are getting a better look at Comet ISON as it dives toward the sun for a Nov. 28th close encounter with solar fire. As the heat rises, the comet brightens, revealing new details every day. This photo, taken Nov. 10th by Michael Jäger of Jauerling Austria, shows a beautiful double tail:

One tail is the ion tail. It is a thin streamer of ionized gas pushed away from the comet by solar wind. The filamentary ion tail points almost directly away from the sun.

The other tail is the dust tail. Like Hansel and Gretel leaving bread crumbs to mark their way through the forest, ISON is leaving a trail of comet dust as it moves through the solar system. Compared to the lightweight molecules in the ion tail, grains of comet dust are heavier and harder for solar wind to push around. The dust tends to stay where it is dropped. The dust tail, therefore, traces the comet's orbit and does not point directly away from the sun as the ion tail does.

Comet ISON is currently moving through the constellation Virgo low in the eastern sky before dawn. Shining like an 8th magnitude star, it is still too dim for naked eye viewing, but an increasingly easy target for backyard optics. Amateur astronomers, if you have a GOTO telescope, enter these coordinates. Special dates of interest are Nov. 17th and 18th when the comet will pass the bright star Spica. Sky maps:Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

BRIGHTER THAN ISON: Comet ISON is getting all the press, but it's not even the brightest comet in its own patch of sky. That would be Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1), one of four comets now rising in the east before dawn:

Image credits: Sormano Astronomical Observatory (Nov. 7, 2013)

Pictured from left to right are exploding Comet LINEAR X1, sungrazing Comet ISON, short-period Comet Encke, and the brightest of them all, Comet Lovejoy. All four are visible in binoculars or backyard telescopes, and Comet Lovejoy (mag. +6.0) is visible to the naked eye from dark-sky sites. Comet ISON is actually one of the faintest of the group; only expanding Comet LINEAR X1 (mag. +8) is more difficult to see.

An apparition of so many comets at once is a rare thing, and amateur astronomers are encouraged to wake up early for a tour of the pre-dawn sky. Dates of special interest include Nov. 15-18 when Comet LINEAR X1 passes by the bright star Arcturus, Nov 17-18 when Comet ISON has a close encounter with Spica, and Nov. 18-20 when Comet Encke buzzes Mercury. These stars and planets make excellent naked-eye guideposts for finding the comets. Meanwhile, bright Comet Lovejoy is approaching the Big Dipper; if you can't see it with your unaided eye, a quick scan with binoculars will reveal it. Sky maps:Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

This is a really excellent video showing a great deal of detail about the three comets interacting with the sun. I find it interesting following the Grid Ex II exercises that this behavior is being seen between the sun and the comets. I will continue to monitor the comets effects and any correlation’s on earth events and sun activity.

This is just a theory i came up with. You know how a couple months ago the sun had a giant black spot on it? What if the whole sun spat out a killshot and it made the sun go dark for 3 days (because it might need 3 days to recharge?) And earths electrical grid gets cut off. Could explain that mayans 3 days of darkness belief.

Talk about chaos..it would be a true killshot. Lets face it...something is going to happen,but to what degree , no one can agree on. Too many signs in the heavens all at once just for it all to be coincidental.

Nostradmus Millennium Comets: ISON, ENCKE, LOVEJOY

Comet Encke is about to make a close pass with the sun at the end of November. Image uploaded Nov. 11, 2013.

And how bright will they all be? Well, from the left, Comet Encke will be magnitude 6, ISON should be hovering around 6 or 7, and Lovejoy will be still very faint at around magnitude 9. That means, especially in a brightening sky, none of them will probably be visible to the naked eye, but this parade will have astrophotographers out in their thousands I should think, and comet observers will be giddy with excitement.

According to the Chinese New Year 2013 this is the year of the snake, and 2013, is also the year of the comets. Since March, we experienced Comet Pan-Starrs, Comet Lemmon, and later this year (November-December) Comet ISON and newly discovered Comet Lovejoy (Sept 9) and Comet Encke will perform a line up of comets in the skies in the Northern Hemispheres.

As far as magnitude, these comets will be close to the Earth: Comet ISON at 6/7 magnitude, Comet Encke at 6 magnitude and Comet Lovejoy at 9 magnitude.

In his prophecies Nostradamus spoke of the famous Millennium Comet his is quatrain:

Quatrain 2.46

After great human misery a greater approaches,The great motor of the centuries renewed:Rain, blood, milk, famine, weapon, and pestilence,In the sky fire seen, dragging long sparks

It is widely believed that “the great motor of the centuries renewed” is another way of saying “when the new millennium begins”. Of course, there is much controversy over when Nostradamus actually believed this would happen.

This could line up of comets in November be an indication of a vision we experienced a few weeks ago about a potential “armygeddon” or Armageddon. One has to look no further than the situation in Syria, Russia, China, Europe and America.

Comet Enke A Threat To Earth?

Is Comet Enke and the Taurid Meteor Shower that caused the Tunguska Event in 1908 on an inevitable second collision course with Earth?

Comet Enke began life in the deep ressesses of space, in the Oort Cloud. However this comet now resides a little closer to Earth, perhaps a little too close.

Although largely unknown, Comet Enke orbits the Sun quicker than any other comet in our solar system. What does this mean for Earth?

During the Bronze Age on Earth, something was to force Enke to fragment, so that the main body is now followed through space by billions of pebble-sized rocks.

Tunguska Event

We have in recent history experienced the outcome of this fragmentation. In June 1908 a rock, believed to be a part of the comet exploded above Tunguska, in Siberia. It devastated 2,000km² of forest. Fortunately the explosion took place over a sparsely populated area ….. this time.

Taurid Meteor Showers

Two for the price of one

A few days after its Nov. 21 perihelion, Encke will be situated just a couple degrees to the north of the much-ballyhooed Comet ISON which itself might be a naked-eye object at perhaps around magnitude 3. After that, Encke will disappear into the dawn twilight and remain out of our view through the rest of 2013.

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